We’ve already talked about how players are desperate for Rawhide at the moment. The basic material has been in very short supply since the 2.0/Vessel of Hatred changes, and even the recent buff to salvage amounts has not changed anything. Luckily, Rob took a look at the situation and found some great spots to farm.
The Rawest of Hides Required
Forget Obducite and gold, it’s the basic materials that are in extremely short supply in the masterworking process. And since Rawhide is required for all armor rolls, that is currently the main bottleneck for all players. Even those with only a few masterworked items! One of the main reasons players find themselves in this predicament seems to be either a change or bug in Legion events. Previously, they dropped around 800 Rawhide/Chunks per event, and now it’s down to around 3. So, considering all this, where do we go to get some more?
Tormented Bosses
As Rob explains in the video below, there are a few places, depending on the other resources you have. Specifically, boss summoning materials. As it turns out, Tormented bosses are the best source of Rawhide at the moment. However, your ability to farm them is entirely dependent on how many summoning materials you have and, more importantly, whether you can find a group to do summon runs with, as that quadruples your loot. Also, for all of these methods you’ll want to do them on as high a difficulty as you can.
The reason the bosses are so good for the base material is due to Ancestral Legendaries, Uniques and especially Ancestral Uniques salvaging for a lot of them. This is also why the Beast in Ice is at the very top of the Rawhide chain, as it drops the most armor items, which salvage into Rawhide. Any weapons and jewelry will not help with our raw quest. Lord Zir is next in line, and Duriel is in third place. All the bosses are between around 8,000 and 9,200 Rawhide per hour. However, if you don’t have access to a lot of summoning materials and/or groups, there is an alternative.
The Temple of Rot
There might be a catch to the second-best farm spot. The Temple of Rot stronghold is pretty close to the Tormented bosses, but you need to have not cleared it on your character. If you have, you can always find another player who hasn’t and proceed that way, or try on an alt that hasn’t cleared it/make a new one. You could even use the instant-lelvel-60 method using Tree of Whispers caches to do it!
In any case, the Temple is a very simple run as you just head to the chest above, open it, and get 50 Rawhide (on T4). Since it’s a very short reset and doesn’t require any mats, you can do a lot of these runs, resulting in around 6,000 Rawhide per hour. The chest is in the top left of the stronghold, right next to the bell you use when you finish it:
The Rest
The rest of the options are much less profitable. Whisper caches and Helltides bring in less than a third of the Temple each, let alone the bosses. However, you can combine them. Obviously their results are significantly better that way – not to mention you get other loot as well. Combined they come in at around 4k. The Whisper caches can also be a nice short-term option as you gather them to level an alt in case you’ve cleared the Temple, though. Infernal Hordes and Nightmare Dungeons are not great, coming in around 2-2.5k.
You can check out all the details with examples in Rob’s video below, as well as the specific material drop salvage numbers for legendaries, Uniques and Ancestrals.
So good luck with your farming! And let’s hope Blizzard put in another buff in really soon, this time more like the Forgotten Souls one!